P.S. I had to go through those drastic measures because this particular coticule was a thin LPB and at had been re-glued with a modern epoxy of some sort.
Coticule love... show off your rock
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I had one boxed stone I could never remove. Eventually hand sawed the box apart to get it out. Was unfortunate because it was a beautiful hand carved mahogany box that was probably worth more than the stone (turned out to be a bbw after I cleaned it)
Are you trying to preserve the paddle? If it's just glue that's holding it and not something else I would try a solvent. Usually acetone or naptha (lighter fluid) will dissolve epoxy.
I have laid an iron on the backside and allowed it to heat the paddle sufficiently where the stone was able to be dumped out onto a towel and others have put them in the oven until the pitch heated sufficiently to dump them out which is a bit smelly and won't get you any points with SWMBO.
Thanks guys. I'm afraid it's more like a 7, or 8 at best John. Not a bad size or shape for me these days, although a centimeter more here and there would certainly be appreciated.
Thought I remembered correctly - I"m going to be trying this out soon I think.
Got this one today. Was only very slightly dish and took almost 45 minutes to lap. Needless to say it's a hard one. Zero to light pressure on the dmt wouldn't even raise a slurry. It's a 7x1.5x1. Seems very hard and fine. Going to give it a go later.
Has some funky BBW going on too.
Freshly lapped and after about a minute rubbing with a LL hybrid slurry stone.
Has some funky BBW going on too.
Freshly lapped and after about a minute rubbing with a LL hybrid slurry stone.
Sweet stone Matt
I love wavy layers.
Sweet stone. Is that one of the four or five that were listed along with my 5x1" that I was surprised to win? It's the exact same layer for sure (got that wavy extra dark layer between the coti and bbw). I've played with it a bit, but not gotten a chance to shave off it yet. Beautiful stones for sure. Feels pretty nice under the razor, not amazing, but nice.
I'm not sure. It was in a lot with a few slip stones and carbos.
Ah, no then. The stones I was thinking of were all listed individually.
Took a pretty big gamble on a stone on eBay UK, thinking it was probably some kind of old, partially trans ark (looks trans at the corners) in a nice paddle. Gets here and I'm immediately like, wow, that's a coti. Lap it up real quick and sure enough, a big thick slab that with the weight feels like it goes down a bit into the paddle too.
The other stone is a MUCH smaller gamble (was a BIN for slightly more than the sellers costs, basically a "I don't wanna throw it out" sale; he called it soapstone), turned out to be a big hunk of hindostan.
The other stone is a MUCH smaller gamble (was a BIN for slightly more than the sellers costs, basically a "I don't wanna throw it out" sale; he called it soapstone), turned out to be a big hunk of hindostan.
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Cool coti. Are you going to leave it in the paddle or remove it?
Leave it in. It's cemented in there really good, there's plenty exposed to use (over a quarter inch, it wasn't dished at all), and I'm worried that I'd have the luck it'd crack or something if I tried to heat it up and pry it out.
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Have fun watching and good night to all !!
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Sorry about the non-coti picture tried to edit but couldn't figure out how to delete.
Sebastian that's a nice looking stone!
Sebastian that's a nice looking stone!
That boxed pike is sweet. Love that label
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